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Yahoo Passes Google in Total Items Searched

Posted by timothy on from the it-depends-what-you're-looking-for dept.

tonyquan writes "Yahoo announced today that its search engine passed Google's for overall capacity, with 20 billion documents and images indexed versus 11.3 billion for Google. Observers had previously pegged Yahoo's index at just 8 billion items. The growth is due to a recent expansion effort. More info can be found on the Yahoo! Search blog and at CNet."

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  1. Re:And in other news... by conran · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Whats tragic is your attitude. The poster simply pointed out that regardless of what press releases Yahoo may make, people are likely to stick with google. Grow up, grow a pair and post while logged in next time.

  2. Re:Yahoo! playing Tortoise to Google's Hare by seanadams.com · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's interesting to see that Yahoo! may have surpassed Google on this metric.

    How about this metric: users

    I don't know a SINGLE person - not one solitary soul, who uses Yahoo! search, but I know scores who use google every day, for everything from engineering research to doing background checks on a date.

    Is ANYONE out there using Yahoo search for anything? Sure, they have personals, finance, weather etc. Anybody can do that stuff - who's using their search though?